The state of California just did something neither the Obama administration nor Congress has done: look unflinchingly into the eye of the coming climate-change storm-not with the intent of stopping it-but of economically surviving it.Rather than passing a weak climate change bill that kowtows to the fossil fuel industry-too little, far too late-Washington should follow California's lead. We do need serious greenhouse gas reductions, but there is equal urgency for us to adapt to a near future that could be swept by unpredictable drought, flooding, heat waves and rising seas.